\chapter{Project Initiation | Tobias Langjahr}\label{chap:projectInitiation}
This assignment will present the project management work of team green. The topic of the project management workshop was the planning and the realization of a fully functional web shop. Since the main focus of this workshop was the project management part, the web shop itself was created with the help of an open source web shop system which was extended with multimedia elements. Before we will start with the actual project management content, the following chapter will introduce the team members of team green. 

\section{Group members}\label{sec:groupMembers}
This workshop was accomplished in teams. Team green consists of the following four team members:

\begin{description}
\item[B. Eng. Tobias Langjahr:]{He is currently responsible for the requirements engineering processes at the automotive manufacturer Daimler. His major task is to support engineers along their work within a requirements engineering tool called DOORS. He has experience in project management as well as work experience from different customer projects.}
\item[B. Eng. Tobias Lauffer:]{Tobias Lauffer currently works as requirement analyst at an automotive company near Stuttgart. The occupation includes analysing and planning business processes and conceptional planning of software architectures.}
\item[B. Eng. J\"org Miller:]{Is developing and administering an interactive computer system. The system provides engineers with an easy access to vehicle measurement data as well as the possibility to analyze that data. His work is mainly concerned with further improving the system by adding new algorithms, administering a small compute-cluster and user-support.}
\item[Dipl. Ing. Michael Ries:]{Currently working as a freelancing software engineer. Main focus is on development of software for object oriented systems and embedded systems.}
\end{description}

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To cope with the pending demands of the project, team roles had to be defined. Those roles where defined before the actual project initiation and are presented in the following list.

\begin{description}
\item[Project Manager:]{The project manager will be responsible for the development of the project plan, the deducted working packages and the resource planning. As a project manager he is also responsible for tracking the project's progress and for managing the project steps if problems will arise.}
\item[Technical Manager:]{The technical manager is responsible for the evaluation of potential web shops, the development of the architecture and the installation of the chosen web shop. It is also his responsibility for the realization of the requirements.}
\item[Quality Manager:]{The quality manager is accountable for the definition of use caseses, functional and non-functional requirements for the web shop. It is also his responsibility to evaluate if the defined requirements had been met after the web shop completion and to manage rework if necessary.}
\item[Documentation Manager:]{The documentation manager is mainly responsible for the documentation of the meeting minutes and decisions made within the project phases. He is also in account for the development of the documentation structure.}
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The developed team roles where assigned to the team members with respect to each individual person's knowledge and experience. As an result, table \ref{tbl:team} shows the assigned role of each team member. The allocation of those roles was done within the very first team meeting and met the desired roles of the team members best. It has to be said that J\"org Miller was also included in the \textit{Technical Manager} role as an assistant of Michael Ries for the placement of the products within the web shop, since the documentation manager role takes more effort in the beginning but less during the final project phase.

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 	\textbf{Role} & \textbf{Team Member} \\
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 	Project Manager & Tobias Langjahr\\
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 	Technical Manager & Michael Ries\\
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 	Quality Manager & Tobias Lauffer\\
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 	Documentation Manager & J\"org Miller\\
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	\caption{Assigned Team Roles}
	\label{tbl:team}
\end{longtable}

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\section{Project Description}
This workshop was based on a fictitious customer order which requires to build a web shop. To clarify the circumstances for the project some assumptions about the initial point of the team and the customer order had to be made to be able to manage the project in a realistic manner. This chapter will present the defined environmental circumstances of the team as well as the defined goals and constraints found for the project.

\subsection{Project Environment}
Team Green is part of the IT department of the company GreenGadget Inc.. The company manufactures and sells environmental friendly products, called gadgets. Until now GreenGadget Inc. sold its products exclusively through resellers. To widen the company's popularity of its products and to acquire a new distribution channel to increase the company's profit, the general management decided to retain the IT department to develop a web shop as distribution platform.

As the IT department of GreenGadget Inc. already has the necessary computer infrastructure, there is no need to acquire new resources e.g. web hoster. Through the existing shipping department it is also possible to handle the additional web shop shipping effort.


\subsection{Goal Definition}\label{sec:goalDefinition}
The main goal of this project is to deploy a fully functional web shop system to sell GreenGadgets Inc's products. To be able to measure the project's success more precise goals had been found. The degree of the project's success shall depend on:
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  \item Rolling out a completely functional (according to the requirements) web-shop by the end of the project.
  \item Passed customer acceptance test at the end of the project.
  \item Neither exceeding budget nor schedule.
  \item Achieving 20\% new customers by the end of 2011 (top management criteria)
  \item The web shop should be able to process transactions of 120\% of today's customers
\end{itemize}



